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TV dead after removing HDMI lead
I took my Humax recorder round to my dad's house to play him something I'd recorded for him. All I did was take the aerial out of the TV and plug it into the Humax, then connect the two together with an HDMI lead. I had to scroll through the inputs to Ext 5.
When it was finished, I first switched off the Humax, then pulled out the HDMI lead. I then plugged the aerial back into the TV and took the TV remote to switch the input back to digital TV. The trouble is that the screen was blank and there was no response from the remote. It didn't even respond to the manual on/off switch on the side. Any ideas how this could have happened and what to do about it? |
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I agree it doesn't make much sense unless the fault is a coincidence. Unplug the TV from the mains for a few minutes and try again, it's surprising how often that cures odd faults on all electronic devices.
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I have had that work on a digital radio, so I assume there must me some kind of sensitive trip-switch or similar employed somewhere inside. There were certainly no clicks, pops or fizzes to indicate anything going wrong.
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Well I thought I'd better reveal the horrible truth, although I'm not sure that anyone will benefit from it.
The TV is an old Wharfedale, so I suppose made by Vestel. The picture is still superb after ten or twelve years and it has good sound too, controlled by a six-band graphic equaliser. It's only real fault is the programme guide, which now looks very outdated. Another design fault is that it is impossible to see the lead inputs and to connect them, without lying on your back holding a torch between your teeth and swearing a lot. Anyway, what happened was that when I went to reinsert the aerial lead, I first mistook a little recess next to the mains plug for its socket. Unknown to me, this is the location of the main power push button that I didn't even realise the TV had. I had accidentally and unknowingly pushed it in with the aerial lead.
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Well I thought I'd better reveal the horrible truth, although I'm not sure that anyone will benefit from it.
The TV is an old Wharfedale, so I suppose made by Vestel. The picture is still superb after ten or twelve years and it has good sound too, controlled by a six-band graphic equaliser. It's only real fault is the programme guide, which now looks very outdated. Another design fault is that it is impossible to see the lead inputs and to connect them, without lying on your back holding a torch between your teeth and swearing a lot. Anyway, what happened was that when I went to reinsert the aerial lead, I first mistook a little recess next to the mains plug for its socket. Unknown to me, this is the location of the main power push button that I didn't even realise the TV had. I had accidentally and unknowingly pushed it in with the aerial lead. ![]() ![]() At least you didn't try and plug the mains lead into the aerial socket, that would have been interesting! ![]() ![]()
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Apart from that, the television is proof that sets made by Vestel aren't necessarily inferior. It has the widest acceptable viewing angle of any television I've ever seen. Are there any experts out there who know what screens were used in the 'Wharfedale' sets and if the same make/type can be found in any current TVs?
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Apart from that, the television is proof that sets made by Vestel aren't necessarily inferior. It has the widest acceptable viewing angle of any television I've ever seen. Are there any experts out there who know what screens were used in the 'Wharfedale' sets and if the same make/type can be found in any current TVs?
As for reliability, one set lasting well doesn't make them reliable, their unreliability is well known - but at least they 'can' be repairable - I've recently got myself a 24 inch Sharp one (the customer wanted it taking away and disposing off), and it had the normal faulty rectifiers. Not sure what I'm going to do with it now though?. |
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They were generally the cheaper ones, and none I've seen (including Wharfedale ones) have ever had decent viewing angles.
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Maybe some monitor screens re-purposed?
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Maybe some monitor screens re-purposed?
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Maybe some monitor screens re-purposed?
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Monitor screens are usually much poorer angles than TV screens, however we've got ONE person claiming great things for ONE cheap crappy TV bought from Argos and made by Vestel - so I'm extremely dubious about his claims
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I will try to get a photo and put it online somewhere. You will eat your words.
My mum had a Wharfedale TV several years ago. Can't say it was anything special. It was a 26in screen with a large silver strip at the bottom concealing the speakers. It was replaced by a LG 32in which was only slightly larger physically despite the larger screen. And the LG had a much better picture. |
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Little point as it will not show the true image quality of the screen.
My mum had a Wharfedale TV several years ago. Can't say it was anything special. It was a 26in screen with a large silver strip at the bottom concealing the speakers. It was replaced by a LG 32in which was only slightly larger physically despite the larger screen. And the LG had a much better picture. It could be a technical challenge to get a decent photo, but merely showing a visible picture should suffice, as my own TV screen would just look a pale shadow at the same angles. |
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I will try to get a photo and put it online somewhere. You will eat your words.
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It sounds as if it could have been the same model. The pure quality of the colour was certainly better than anything I could achieve on my Toshiba Regza, no matter how much time I spent tweaking it. The Toshiba also has a terrible tolerance for viewing angle.
It could be a technical challenge to get a decent photo, but merely showing a visible picture should suffice, as my own TV screen would just look a pale shadow at the same angles. Also ideally you need to compare them side by side using the exact same video source in the exact same lighting conditions. |
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Toshiba are, to be brutal, hardly a top of the class make in the same league as Sony or Panasonic.
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Just testing to see if this link works:
http://postimg.org/image/ky1k9f7hn/ Edit - seems to at the moment, although I didn't register. |
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The above is my father's Wharfedale TV, demonstrating its acute viewing angle. I tried to post it on Flickr but couldn't get past their new security measures to access my account.
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